The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-02-05
LITTLE OF EVERYTHING.

| BOGUS 1O-cent pieces nave made
their appearance.
THE Deer Greek Rip Saw is the name
of an Ohio Sheet.
Snow is deep in Kansas, and farm
ers are satisfied.
Corn brings only 13 cents q bushel
at Howard, Neb.
| In Arizona men with fur caps are
set down as tenderfeet from the
East.
A STOCKTON, CAL, bootblack car
ries a box that is covered with silver
plate.
ToUGHNUT Street is the name Of the
principal thoroughfare in Tombstone,
A. IT.
THE Nevada Legislature viii repeal
the anti-treating law, passed two
years ago.
! An Astoria Tauctioneer advertises
for sale eighty-nine condemned United
States bedslats.
THE compilers of the New Orleans
Directory claim population OF 260-
600 for that city.
NJ. PAsTEUR is threatened with par
alysis and will retire frolA active
practice.
FINE salmon trout, some OF them
weighing pounds, are now caught
through the ice in Otsego Lake, at
Cooperstown, N. Y.
EX-Gov. CURTIN, OF Pennsylvania,
says he pardoued 125 men out OF jail,
all of whom enlisted under Farragut.
Not one OF them survived the war.
Will TAYLOR, q prescription clerk
in Liberty, Neb., shot hole through
his head while shifting his gun to his
hip pocket.
THE Red Cliff (Cal) Times says:
Mountain Jack has purchased the
Bank Saloon, and can mix you the
finest drink to be found IN Eagle
County"
THERE is dog at Magog, Quebec,
that will mount the toboggan sled, go
down the slide, draw the sled back,
and go down again as many times as
his owner commands him.
WE have a little piece OF advice to
offer gratis: Don't sit down on to-
boggan slide unless you have tobog-
gan under you.-BurhDgtOn Free
Press.
AN English sanitary inspector on
visiting the house OF q widower found
that he had married. The bride ex-
planned her presence at once, and with
out any bashful circumlocution. 81
married him." she said, "because
had rheumatism in the knees, and this
is dry house"
WASHINGTON fashion correspondents
gay that in tony army circles it has
become q la mode to powder the
hair among the gentlemen as we'll as
the ladies. This will be the first ex-
perience a good many OF our army
officers have ever had with powder
Boston Advertiser.
A COMMERCIAL traveller says that in
Pittsburg bar-rooms one can bay two
drinks for quarter, and il he buys
one drink ne pays Is cents and re-
ceives q check which represents two
and one-half cents. The next time
he wants drink hepays 10 cents and
the check. 1t seems a good scheme to
encourage trade.
AN enterprising boy trader is visit
ing houses in Boston offering fine
stock of spruce gum. One popularity
distinguishes his stock. The gum is
warranted to be call started" and
the little round balls show that they
have been carefully prepared for the
full enjoyment of the gumchewers.
A GAsooN officer, hearing OF the
boastful exploits of g. certain prince,
who among other things had killed
six men with his own hands IN the
course OF an assault upon city, said
disdainfully, "Poh, that's nothing;
the mattress | sleep on is stuffed
with nothing but the whiskers ofthose
have dispatched" :"
AT Weymouth, Mass, one day last
summer, g man agreed to pay $40 to
another one to fill up a hole, giving
him permission to use anything he
chose provided it vas filled level with
the surface. A few days ago the man
appeared, and, filling the excavation
with snow, claimed his money, but
has not got it yet.
A TRAVELLER in one OF the hotels OF
Bangor, Me-, put his false teeth in q
glass OF water when he went to bed
the other night. In the morning the
water was frozen solid, and as the
zen, he had to take the glass into bed
with him and thus thaw the ice before
he could go to breakfast.
In twenty-three Of the thirty eight
states q prior undiasolved marriage
sets aside q new union. In twenty IN
sanity does the same, in seventeen
homage, and in thirteen fraud. These
are grounds for declaring the mar
riage null and void ab initiO. Deser-
tion as a ground for divorce varies in
length and character in many states.
A CERTAIN representative man, who
is not always worthy OF respect, was
talking to his wife about the President.
"They may say what they please
about Cleveland" he said, ''but he is
a remarkable man, and he always
treats me with the greatest courtesy"
"Um," she replied, with a grunt, ''if he
can do that, should say he was re-
markable man ,"-IVashingtOn Critic.
A NEW French shell, flied with me-
lenite, is said to be q hundred times
more powerful than the shells filed
with powder. The strongest fortif-
cations would crumbie to pieces when
attacked with this destructive shell.
It is not explosive in handling, and
the shells do not explode till they
come in contact with the object aimed
at.
SINCE going to London a year ago
Prince Krapotkin has lived in retire
ment in modest little house at Har-
row on the Hill, and has kept strictly
aloof from the mad orgies OF the An
archists and Social Democrats. He
spends much time In making literary
J and scientific researches at the British
| Museum.
The roll OF Irishmen who fought for
the Union IS long and honorable
one. 1t includes the names OF Gems.
Sheridan, Logan, Tom Sweeney, Mul-
ligan, Smythe, McConihe, Lawier, Nc
Mahon, Nugent, Donahue, Quincy, Jar
,, dine, Jourdan, Reilly, Kelly, Burke,
SeweIl, German, Brady, Sullivan,
Boyle, Conner, Mulhollapd, Gowan
and Mclaughlin.
IT is an old but true story that the
! | Duke of Rucclauch and OueeusbarrV